Hip Hop - Anywhere Artist for Android

11 things about Hip Hop - Anywhere Artist

1. California became a hip-hop hot spot with some of its most famous artists including Snoop Dogg and New York-born California resident Tupac Shakur, whose poetic lyrics addressed issues such as racism and parental abandonment.

2. "On a sociocultural level, hip-hop is a music rooted in the real, while that 'real' is often exaggerated for effect (as in the glorification of violence or bravado, etc.), it is still a music rooted in the everyday experience of artists who have something to say about inequality or imbalances of power.

3. Featuring FREE music, news, photos, videos, and more from 12 of today's great hip-hop artists.

4. Graphic art, or graffiti, became part of hip-hop, along with spoken word poetry and hip-hop dance, which includes break dancing, popping and locking.

5. Three decades after its birth, hip-hop, which began as an artistic expression for black, urban youth, has come to be accepted and created by people all over the world.

6. And as hip-hop music spread in America, it spread across art forms, races and nations.

7. Hip-hop spread in New York and beyond with the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy and Wu-Tang Clan.

8. Hip-hop emerged out of the social upheaval of the 1970s in New York's Bronx borough.

9. Reminiscent of its social roots, hip-hop is a tool for activism, a way to reach out to many fans of hip-hop -- the youth.

10. Digital Media Interactive presents the Hip-Hop iOS app, a collection of hypnotic beats and poetic rhymes.

11. DJ Kool Herc, known for creating the breakbeat, the basis for hip-hop, is credited as a pioneer of the genre.